Silvio Berlusconi: Battered, bruised, aging, under siege, and still kicking. When I tell my fellow university students I’m Italian, I almost always get two questions: “Can you teach me how to cook pasta properly?” and “How come you Italians still vote for Berlusconi?” I’ll try to answer the second question here, though it’s far from […]
Study panel wants landlords to fix properties, end retaliatory eviction. In early October, Petrice Howard noticed hundreds of tiny water droplets beading the ceiling of her daughters’ bedroom in her rented Baring Cross home. Soon after, black mold spread across the walls, ceiling and baseboards of the bedroom and then spread to the bathroom and […]
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit New Delhi A day after a man shoved an iron rod down a young woman’s throat when she resisted his attempts to rape her, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit trained her guns on the police again saying women do not feel safe in the national capital. “Women don’t feel safe in Delhi. There […]
Two expats accused of having sex in the back of a Dubai taxi have taken their case to the appeal court. Brit Rebecca Blake and her co-defendant, an Irishman, were handed three- month jail terms in November by Dubai Misdemeanours Court after being found guilty of having an illegal affair. They were also fined Dhs3,000 […]
Before the jurors were questioned. Before all the plaintiff‘s and witnesses were seated. Michael Lyon settled. The plaintiffs: former nannies, family members and friends video recorded in bedrooms, bathrooms and showers in Lyons homes in Sacramento and Lake Tahoe.,saved the humiliation of reliving events surrounding the tapings. 2.5 million dollars and a public apology will […]
t Time to close the book, turn off the lights on the Best Soap Opera in San Francisco “The Sheriff and the Soap Star“. After a year of international coverage, with more twist and turns than Lombard Street we have reached the end, or have we? Last year former San Francisco Board of Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi was […]
Four years after a federal immigration raid upended an Iowa town, one reunited family aims to make a new life for itself in Postville. Above: Rosa Zamora and Fermin Loyes relax with their daughters, Merlin, 10, and Ilvana, 5. The family was split up after the 2008 federal immigration raid in Postville, but have […]
It’s self-defense with a dangerous bodega umbrella. A celebrity jeweler — accused of thwacking a stranger with her $2 umbrella during a fight over a Christopher Street parking spot this summer — is promising she’ll go to trial to insist she only swung to protect herself. Pretty Dawnelle Yager — whose jewelry has been worn […]
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Rose Ashton-Weir, now 18, and her mother Elizabeth Weir are suing the prestigious Geelong private school after she began failing badly in maths in years 9 and 10 and later missed out on enrolment in law at the University of Sydney. But the grammar school is defending the civil lawsuit before VCAT, arguing it was […]
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